WH barrels ahead with integration

Chairman and CEO Wan Long tells FinanceAsia how the Chinese pork producer is pushing ahead with its ambitious global reorganisation.

WH Group is barrelling ahead with the integration of its US and Chinese businesses less than a month after the pork producer raised $2.05 billion from an initial public offering at the second attempt.

Wan Long, chairman and chief executive of the Henan-based group, discussed the company’s plans with FinanceAsia, which include boosting pork imports from Smithfield Foods, the US pork producer it acquired in a landmark deal in 2013.